THE MASEFIELD MATTERS PROJECT. Speaker to be confirmed John Masefield was a best-selling poet and author from Ledbury, who was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. Since then, he has faded from public memory. The Masefield Matters project was set up to...
   STEPHEN BALLARD AND THE HEREFORDSHIRE AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE CANAL. By Ralph Barber Stephen Ballard: a remarkable man. This presentation on his life will focus on the early years around the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust, with stories of his life,...
   The Herefordshire pomona. By Bill Laws The Herefordshire Pomona is a remarkable book. Launched in the late nineteenth century as no more than a collection of ‘coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of Apples and Pears,’ it is widely...
    Herefordshire in the Dark Ages c. 400-600 A.D. By David Whitehead For the JOE HILLABY MEMORIAL TALK 2025, David Whitehead will shed a little light on the county’s past between 400 and 600 A.D. In about 410 A.D. Roman Britain came to an end. Vestiges of a...
a HISTORY OF VINE HOUSE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW STREET By Wendy Hill, MA Vine House, very close to the historical heart of Ledbury, was built in the 1750s.  When Wendy and Bernard Hill moved there in August 2016 – on the hottest day of the year! – they...
